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The European Union strongly supports the Secretary-General’s zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse, and his leadership in dealing with that challenge. We are working to ensure that the highest standards of professionalism and conduct in both civilian and military operations are upheld, and to lay the ground for stronger preventive, protective and accountability measures. We have also funded the International Organization for Migration to enable it to develop tools that will help the humanitarian community prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse by humanitarian staff, and we hope they will also be useful for reform of the wider United Nations system on this issue, which we very much welcome.